Opera national de Paris: La Damnation de Faust

The aging scholar Faust contemplates the renewal of nature. Hearing peasants sing and dance, he realizes that their simple happiness is something he will never experience...Depressed, Faust has returned to his study. Even the search for wisdom can no longer inspire him.

Tired of life, he is about to commit suicide when the sound of church bells and an Easter hymn remind him of his youth, when he still had faith in religion...